Get all the latest news and headlines from Edinburgh, Fife and the Lothians sent straight to your inbox twice a day by signing up to our free newsletter.įrom breaking news to the latest on the coronavirus crisis in Scotland, we'll have you covered. She said he began to suffer from seizures and doctors said there was nothing more they could do to save him. Lisa said she didn't leave Karlton's side while he was in critical care at The Great North Children's Hospital. She said: "I remember a consultant stating that he was in a really bad way. Karlton was airlifted to hospital and Lisa met him there after being transported in a police car with blue lights. Lisa said the Great North Air Ambulance Service, the North East Ambulance Service and Northumbria Police rushed to her address. It took four minutes for the ambulance to arrive but it felt like four hours." She was just fantastic and I'm so grateful. “She worked and worked and worked on my boy until the ambulance arrived and they took over. Amiee took over from Kaitlin and she didn't give up. "I must have screamed and screamed and screamed. "I just collapsed outside on the grass," said Lisa. Kaitlin and Lisa's neighbour Amiee Morrison carried out CPR on Karlton until paramedics arrived at the house. On the day of the accident, Kaitlin and her eight-month-old twin daughters Renae and Tianna Hodgson had come to visit. "He had lots of dinosaur and dragon books and lots of dinosaur toys." He loved dinosaurs - 'dinosaur roar' was probably one of his first words. He was really well mannered so he got a treat. Lisa added: "He had been really well behaved and he hadn't asked for anything, he was never ungrateful. It was his first time at the funfair and he had enjoyed the rides. Karlton had been bought the large balloon as a treat during a trip to The Hoppings on The Town Moor in Newcastle with Lisa and his dad Karl Donaghey, 35, on June 17. He had his eyes wide open and he was pale." As a mother, I knew he was gone, he was unresponsive. "I pulled the balloon off him and I screamed. ![]() ![]() I think he's put himself in the balloon to be a dinosaur to go outside and surprise his nieces. "It was a dinosaur balloon which was the same size as him. ![]() "When I came in he was on the floor with the balloon over his head and his neck," she said. She said she had gone to check on Karlton after he went inside to use the toilet. Lisa, who is also mum to Kaitlin, 25, Joe, 20, and Will, 15, said they had been enjoying the warm weather in the garden when the accident happened on June 23. READ MORE - Edinburgh campaigner call for financial support for pregnancy drug disabilities He spent nearly a week in ICU before his ventilator was sadly switched off, the Mirror reports. Heroic neighbours gave Karlton emergency CPR before medics arrived at the scene and airlifted him to Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary. Heartbroken mum Lisa Donaghey, 43, found him on the floor of their Gateshead home and immediately raised the alarm. Karlton had tried to climb into a large dinosaur inflatable which he got at a funfair. Little Karlton Donaghey, aged five, spent six days fighting for life in intensive care before passing away. A devastated mum has issued a warning to others after her young son died in a tragic helium ballon accident.
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